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BIO-220 Topic 1 DQ 2
The society’s view of the environment has evolved over the years. Today, most people
appreciate the value of the environment and the need to preserve it through personal initiatives at
the individual level and legislative actions to cut industrial pollution which has caused the
adverse climate changes that the world is grappling with. In the U.S., the onset of society’s
positive views on environment in modern day can be traced to April 22, 1970 when millions of
citizens participated in demonstrations, cleanups, and other activities to mark the first Earth Day
(Gibben, 2018). The Earth Day was an indication of the awareness of the people that the
industrialization that had made the country prosperous had evolved into a dire threat to the
environment and their health. The first Earth Day was followed by enactment of series of laws to
protect the environment, including the Environmental Protection Agency Act, Clean Air Act, and
Clean Water Act (Gibben, 2018). The enactment of these policies was a culmination of pressure
to the government by the people to do more toward environmental protection.
Today, although the menace of pollution and environmental degradation persist, the
society is still adamant on the need for a collective responsibility to protect the environment.
Worldwide, people participate in Earth Day which is organized by the Earth Day Network. They
hold marches, plant trees, meet with local government representatives, and clean up their local
environments (Gibben, 2018). Besides, more people are now ready to take personal initiatives to
protect the environment even as they call on the government to do more toward the cause.
According to a recent study conducted in the United States and Australia, 93 percent of the
respondents show a general concern for environmental issues touching on plastic pollution, loss
of biodiversity, and climate change. Most of the respondents indicate that they had taken

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personal steps to create environmental sustainability; 83 percent recycled, 57.5 percent used
reusable bags, while 45.2 percent avoided purchasing single-use plastics (Ellsmoor, 2020).
Therefore, today’s trajectory is that society, especially in developed nations that
contribute the largest share of environmental pollution, is increasingly becoming appreciative of
the need to preserve the environment. This trajectory is consistent with several scriptures that
assert the need and obligation of man to protect God’s creation. In Jeremiah 2:7, God
admonishes Israelites for ruining the environment: “I brought you into a fertile land to eat its
fruit and its good things. But when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an
abomination.” Moreover, in Numbers 35:33-34, God warns the Israelites against polluting the
environment: “You shall not pollute the land in which you live…” Genesis 21: 15 shows that
God expects human beings to take care of the environment, not no ruin it, even as they extract
benefits from it: “The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and
keep it.

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1 BIO-220 Topic 1 DQ 2 The society’s view of the environment has evolved over the years. Today, most people appreciate the value of the environment and the need to preserve it through personal initiatives at the individual level and legislative actions to cut industrial pollution which has caused the adverse climate changes that the world is grappling with. In the U.S., the onset of society’s positive views on environment in modern day can be traced to April 22, 1970 when millions of citizens participated in demonstrations, cleanups, and other activities to mark the first Earth Day (Gibben, 2018). The Earth Day was an indication of the awareness of the people that the industrialization that had made the country prosperous had evolved into a dire threat to the environment and their health. The first Earth Day was followed by enactment of series of laws to protect the environment, incl ...
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